US-funded Radio Free Asia (RFA) has closed its Hong Kong bureau over safety concerns for its staff in the wake of a new national security law known as Article 23.
“Actions by Hong Kong authorities, including referring to RFA as a ‘foreign force’, raise serious questions about our ability to operate in safety with the enactment of Article 23,” its president, Bay Fang, said in a statement on Friday.
The new law comes with stiffer punishments from several years up to life in jail for crimes including treason, sedition, state secrets, espionage and external interference.
RFA was a pretty dodgy news organization. They have convenient “anonymous witnesses” for huge accusations. And all our media proceed to use them as a singular source. And of course they’re American funded.
Now of course China violates human rights, but RFA consistently publishing big claims without evidence doesn’t help their case.
That’s quite the euphemism to say funded by the CIA and the State Department.